{"id":1208,"date":"2026-05-09T04:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:04:27","slug":"minimum-distance-from-a-point-to-a-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"Minimum distance from a point to a line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-4.png 750w, https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-4-300x185.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-background\">The minimum distance from a point to a line can be thought of as a line. What I mean by that is, if we draw a line named $Bobbi$ and he must have the shortest possible height, then lil Bobbi&#8217;s feet must be perpendicular to the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-background\">You could, of course, calculate this by noticing Bobbi&#8217;s slope is -1 of the slope of the original line, and write some equations, and solve. BUT- this is going to take 8 bajillion years and you might as well use this formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-background\"><br>\\(d=\\frac{|Ax_{1}+By_{1}+C|}{\\sqrt{A^{2}+B^{2}}}\\)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-background\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. The latex took me forever   .,,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minimum distance from a point to a line can be thought of as a line. What I mean by that is, if we draw a line named $Bobbi$ and he must have the shortest possible height, then lil Bobbi&#8217;s feet must be perpendicular to the line. You could, of course, calculate this by noticing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,56,22,45,57],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-bobbi","tag-formulas","tag-math","tag-pre-contest-review","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesrenee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}